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" As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. "
Mel Brooks
Far
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Me
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" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "
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" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
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" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "
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" I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up. "
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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
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" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "
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" Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. "
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" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
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" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "
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" I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. "
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" The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. "
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Back
" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "
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Fear
Everything
" A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote. "
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" If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. "
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Fly
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" A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. "
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" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "
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" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "
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" Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. "
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" It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't. "
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" Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. "
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" A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. "
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